Dyspeptic retired Marine wife/tech wench attempts to enlighten the great unwashed of the blogosphere while dodging snarky commentary from the local knavery.

February 02, 2012

Best. Comment. Ever.

"And so when I talk about our financial institutions playing by the same rules as folks on Main Street, when I talk about making sure insurance companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick, or making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of the most vulnerable among us, I do so because I genuinely believe it will make the economy stronger for everybody. But I also do it because I know that far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and treated unfairly over the last few years, and I believe in God’s command to 'love thy neighbor as thyself.'"
"I know the version of that Golden Rule is found in every major religion and every set of beliefs — from Hinduism to Islam to Judaism to the writings of Plato," Obama added.

The president said he often falls to his knees in prayer, and emphasized the role of his religious values in determining where to lead the country.

"I’d be remiss if I stopped there; if my values were limited to personal moments of prayer or private conversations with pastors or friends. So instead, I must try — imperfectly, but I must try — to make sure those values motivate me as one leader of this great nation."

Obama maintained that his call for the wealthiest to give up their tax breaks, he's doing so out of economic necessity, but also in line with biblical teachings.

"And I think to myself, if I’m willing to give something up as somebody who’s been extraordinarily blessed, and give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy, I actually think that’s going to make economic sense. But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that 'for unto whom much is given, much shall be required,'" Obama said, noting Jewish and Islamic teachings say much the same thing.

Cue the Uber-outraged Shreikery about separation of church and state in 5... 4... 3...

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I just got this great idea! Why don't we have President Obama teach the Golden Rule to Mitt Romney! I'll bet Mitt's probably never heard of it, being a Mormon and all. That's why hates poor people so much. I'm telling you, Obama may not be the single greatest human being ever to walk the earth, but he sure knows the name of the only guy in front of him.

I was in the garage tending to things old methane eruptions tend to when THE ∅ preempted the talking heads/news on the tube to deliver this sermon.

I am so thankful that I turned off the power tool I was abusing at that moment due to the transference of ectoplasmic proto-pandering that seeped through the RF and slathered my old carcass. Yup, we wuz slimed yet again.

Umm, as a Judeo-Christian precept, the Golden Rule needs no government mandate to act under. And as a Judeo-Christian precept, it would be Wrong to demand that our Muslim and atheist fellows to live by it under government mandate.

On the other hand, as a Judeo-Christian precept, I have to wonder, again, what's holding Obama, Buffet, et al., back from fulfilling that obligation directly and personally, with checks to the Treasury....

And I'm not interested in any of Obama's self-love being inflicted on me.

I think he has, or his surrogates and fellow believers, have already blamed the people for not being good enough for him.

After a while, I think you have invoked the Deity enough to get what you want.

And as a friend (who is quite a well read but self-taught Biblical scholar) has tried to tell me for years, the purpose of prayer is for you to get in line with God's program, not to get things for yourself. I fail to see the humility typical of most sincere Christian in the man they call.......well, you know his name.

I'll settle for a single verse where Jesus defined charity as sending out Caesar's legions to extract contributions at spearpoint so the scribes and Pharisees could pass it back out with great fanfare.

Verses where He defines it as a personal act to be done as secretly as possible are, pardon the word, legion.